Afterlife Quotes

“finite creations will never come to the end of exploring the infinite Creator.”
― Hank Hanegraaff, Afterlife: What You Need to Know about Heaven, the Hereafter & Near-Death Experiences

“The subjective texture of our conscious mental experiences—the feeling of pain, the experience of sound, the awareness of color—is different from anything that is simply physical. If the world were only made of matter these subjective aspects of consciousness would not exist. But they do exist! So there must be more to the world than matter.”
― Hank Hanegraaff, Afterlife: What You Need to Know about Heaven, the Hereafter & Near-Death Experiences

“Without choice, love would be rendered meaningless. God is neither a cosmic rapist who forces his love on people, nor is he a cosmic puppeteer who forces people to love him. Instead, God, the personification of love, grants us the freedom to revel in his love or to loathe him. Such freedom provides a persuasive polemic for the existence of hell. If there is freedom then there must also be hell.”
― Hank Hanegraaff, Afterlife: What You Need to Know about Heaven, the Hereafter & Near-Death Experiences

“Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.”
― Hank Hanegraaff, Afterlife: What You Need to Know about Heaven, the Hereafter & Near-Death Experiences

“Far from minimizing biblical truth, metaphors serve as magnifying glasses that identify truth we might otherwise miss.”
― Hank Hanegraaff, Afterlife: What You Need to Know about Heaven, the Hereafter & Near-Death Experiences

“Mystery is our mind’s food. If we truly said, “I have seen everything,” we would conclude, as did the author of Ecclesiastes, “all is vanity.”
― Hank Hanegraaff, Afterlife: What You Need to Know about Heaven, the Hereafter & Near-Death Experiences